[Intro(4x)]
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the clasp broke at the disco Mom I'm sorry
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& the older men who hit on Becky
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nearly broke their necks on scattered pearls
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& we searched the best we could
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for two entire songs we knelt & felt along
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the place where we had stood

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but we only found 7 of Grandmother's pearls

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& as we rode the bus home I thought surely
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I'd wake up tomorrow just to find
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that I had dreamed up everything
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there'd still be pearls on a string
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I wouldn't smell like smoke & I'd still
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have the cash that I had spent on drinks
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oh I feel as scattered as Grandmother's pearls
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Mom don't cry
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they're only pearls

[Solo(4x)]

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